the life..

Hello hello. update: I am still doing the same thing I was doing last time I wrote, namely, nothing. I did go on a short 5-day research cruise, but since then I have reverted back to my state of nearly catatonic bliss, accomplishing little more than a sunburn. (yet another lesson learned; no matter how short the stay in the sun, sunscreen is ALWAYS a necessity.) I did get to meet with a guy who happens to be in charge of all diving and boating operations for the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology  (HIMB) located on Coconut Island (google it, that shizz is amazing) and I got to spend an entire day wandering around dive offices across the Island. We went to the one on campus at Manoa, went to the office for the National Monument that is the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, saw the Hawaii Undersea Research Lab’s  (HURL) deep sea submarines (so cool!) and then got to explore all of Coconut Island, and help wrangle baby hammerhead sharks. yes, that is right. dude. no words for the coolness. And starting tomorrow I’m going to be diving with the  HIMB  scientific diving class. A-MAZING.

Other than that though, I spend my weekdays under my favorite banyon tree down at the beach, and my weekends exploring. This weekend we went snorkeling up on the north shore which was super nice, so clear and so warm and so many cool things to see. We also went on a hike to this place called Laie falls, which was the most amazing place. So it’s an hour and a half hike up to this one waterfall, right? THEN you can be B.A. like we were, and hike down a bit to a second waterfall. From there, you can climb through the mud to a tree which has a rope leading down to a third waterfall. so you climb this rope down, then you wade through the pool to another waterfall. then you shimmy on your butt through the actual waterfall to get to another pool. then you swim through that to get to another waterfall, and this one is straight down, so you have to climb down a rope, again in the waterfall to get to the next pool. then i would assume one could keep going, but the water was a bit too high and coming a bit too hard to try and finagle our way down the next waterfall. so then, after a delicious picnic lunch of fruit and pb&j’s, you have to climb back up. through the waterfalls. It was SO incredible. it had been raining a bunch, so the water was murky with sediment, but it still was so beautiful.

In other news, I bought a bike! so now I am mobile even when brett has his bike at work. whoohoo.

well, I hope all is well back on the mainland!

peace and love, all.

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